s2s2s2:So you have examined all evidence of any kind, any where, and determined, through your own research, that there exists no evidence pointing toward the existence of some extra terrestrial intelligence?

I bet you're just really confident in what you believe. If only there was a word for that.

100 Watt Walrus:The My Little Pony Killer: Oh please. Like no religion has ever paid for and put up advertising that insults people of other faiths. They just don't like it when the same game gets played against them instead of to their advantage.

/not gonna walk on eggshells around your delusion

Other people do it, so being an asshole is OK!

In the real world....

"Hey, I think if I throw this hammer up in the air over and over again, it might hit a cloud and cause it to rain!"

"That's stupid."

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"Hey, if I talk to myself and pretend it's a guy who got killed a couple of thousand years ago and ask him nicely, he'll let me live forever in the clouds!"

"That's stupid"

"Don't disrespect my faith! It's my faith, and now you're bad because you're disrespecting my faith! It's my *faith* and all, you know! Do you know what faith is? It's *faith*, and you have to respect it!...."

I'll get back to you right after I answer the door here. Looks like it's a couple of people who don't know me, but want to say they're better than I am and are more knowledgeable about the universe, even though they've never held a conversation with me before.

"Requiring evidence that something exists before believing in it is a form of faith?"

Strongly disbelieving something without proof most certainly is.I am sure this will turn into another long song and dance and twisting of words but atheists have no more proof for what they disbelieve than what most believers do for what they do believe.Besides, you can't prove a negative.

What god(s) should people believe in and why? Is your lack of belief in Apollo a matter of faith? Can you prove that Apollo does not exist? If you cannot, is that a compelling reason to believe that such a being exists?

Kurmudgeon:I am sure this will turn into another long song and dance and twisting of words but atheists have no more proof for what they disbelieve than what most believers do for what they do believe.Besides, you can't prove a negative.

Shostie:FloydA: Rule number one of atheist advertising should be "don't be an asshole."

As far as I'm concerned, that's rule number one of life.

THESE.

/"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind."

whidbey:Repo Man: KrispyKritter: It's fun to mock peoples personal beliefs. Live and let live is for pussies.

/ morans

The majority of Fark threads consist of mocking people for what they believe.

No just stupid Republicans and other annoying right-wing conservative types.

And anti vaxers, homeopaths, chem trail believers, birthers, 9/11 truthers. All of whom, in my opinion, deserve being treated derisively for believing in demonstrable nonsense . Should I care if my making fun of a birther makes him cling to his delusional belief even more tightly than before? As these sorts of people seem to be immune to reason, facts, and evidence, I really don't think so.

As Christians find joy in "the sacrifice of the figure of Christ Jesus," Moore adds, "your Humanist siblings are likewise jubilant at the death of God, and we embrace the necessity of sacrifice from one for each other, in the interest of advancing a human-centered ethic that benefits us all."